Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Why am I getting annoying msg in mailbox? Message-ID: <9011290454.AA10051@apple.com> Date: 29 Nov 90 04:43:15 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 On Wed, 28 Nov 90 16:59:30 GMT Parik Rao said: > Some link is thrashed, I keep getting this @#$ >message everytime i post in comp.sys.apple2... is it >just me? There's was probably a person that was a member of this newsgroup that just recently lost their account on his/her school or business mainframe. Every time you send a message to the net, the net sends it to everyone it has a list of. This person was probably one of them. When the message is sent to that 'non existent' person, the mail system for that place sends your mail back to you telling you what the problem was, think you were mailing DIRECTLY to that person. This happened to me a couple of weeks ago from a different place. I received about 20 messages from some mailer. Each message had a FIVE PAGE HEADER, PLUS my original message! I mailed the postmaster at that location telling them the problem and asking them if they oculd fix it. They wrote back saying that if it persists, they'll delete that persons account. This particular person wasn't 'unfinedable', but their mail box was full. Sorry, but I haven't received the messages you've been getting lately (Not to say I won't) :) >-- > ____________________________________________________________________________ >| | >| Parik Rao, Univ. of California Santa Barbara... 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | >|_America Online:AFA Parik_______________________________________GEnie:P.RAO_| ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com